Swifting Quotes & Sayings

You begin by always expecting good things to happen. — Tom Hopkins

I say, "Good job, buddy," and his face is like I've just fixed the whole world. — Hannah Moskowitz

Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her. — Thomas Carlyle

Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder. — Nicholas Notarberardino

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all. — Harper Lee

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around. — Stewart Rahr

When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. — Medgar Evers

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here. — Russell Banks

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. — Willie Morris

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank. — Zig Ziglar

Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke. — Erin Hanson

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. — Gene Fowler

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight. — Leona Lewis

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am afraid of falling, of fire, of torture and monsters and infestations of spiders and wild dogs and cancer and the End of the World (a proper one, without a sequel) and everything else I have imagined in the small hours between two and four, when unreasonable, improbable waking nightmares can attain solidity and bulk. I — Nick Harkaway